Sources:
Elected, Journal of the House of Delegates, 1984 Special Session, 8; elected chief judge, Court of Appeals Order Book, January 7, 1985; biography, Resolution in Memorial of Ernest Ballard Baker, Judge, adopted by the Judicial Conference of Virginia meeting in annual session in Charlottesville on May 20, 1985, published in 1 Va.App., vi-vii. See also Elizabeth Terry Long, “Ernest Ballard Baker (25 November 1917-24 March 1985),” in John T. Kneebone and Sara B. Bearrs, Dictionary of Virginia Biography (Richmond, Va.: Library of Virginia, 1998), v. 1, 296-297.